Francesco Group find Shortcuts Education Easy

By: Adrian Mills // Date Posted: 31/03/2008 2:42:01 PM

Manchester and Stafford, March 2008 - Shortcuts have rewarded the Francesco Group with the coveted ‘Enterprise Accredited Salon in Education’ (EASE) award.

Francesco Group, one of the most well known and respected brands in hair salons in the UK, use Shortcuts Enterprise Software across their network of salons. The Enterprise solution allows each individual salon to run the day to day business activities, including appointment making, point of sale and client management. Whilst the head office can efficiently monitor stock control and manage service pricing, employee details, marketing campaigns and much more.

Francesco Group presented with the Shortcuts EASE Award:
Left to right: Corinne Barker (Francesco Group, IT Manager), Mike Sowden (CEO UK, Shortcuts Software), Ben Dellicompagni (Francesco Group, Managing Director) and Mark Rowley (Shortcuts Software, UK Education Manager)

Francesco Group focuses heavily on education for all their franchisees and workforce. They firmly believe in empowering their staff through education to aid personal and company development. Education is not just limited to hair design they look at the whole salon process and offer a range of educational elements. It is this dedication that has earned the Francesco Group their latest accolade, from Shortcuts. The Francesco Group hold four Shortcuts training workshops each year. They have done this for over three years, for their franchisees, salon managers and receptionists, ensuring they are kept abreast of all updates and developments as well as ensuring all franchisees are refreshed on every element of Shortcuts.

Francesco Group realise the importance of salon management software, how it delivers correct information about salons and individuals’ performances. Ben Dellicompagni, Francesco Group Managing Director stated. “Shortcuts provides significant data to hairdressers and administrators at any level. With education, hairdressers and business types alike, have sound foundations on which to base key business ideas whilst having additional extras to be inspired.”

Shortcuts delivers vital information in real time about every salon, in terms of client retention, how much stock each salon is carrying, how many appointments are booked for the next month and so on and so forth. The salon management systems are critical in how every salon operates, without them they simply could not function. So it is vitally important that each and every salon are experts in using Shortcuts.

“It is great to see how much Francesco Group get out of using Shortcuts. With the education they have in place they ensure each salon can optimise its own performance. It also allows Francesco Group to review salon performance and ensure their own benchmarks are being achieved.” Commented Mike Sowden, CEO at Shortcuts UK.